Saturday, April 29, 2006
Modern science's ancient mentality towards nature
“The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. The concepts and practices of applied entomology for the most part date from that Stone Age of science. It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that is turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.” (Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, taken from Deep Ecology, pg 94)
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Our archaic notion of science - armed with a crooked worldview - has the primary principle to control, dominate, and destroy nature. When will science finally evolve into a unified science that works with and within the system that houses it?
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